Antiques Roadshow: Syon Park (1999)

one the Antiques Roadshow [Music] [Music] [Music] this week we brought the Antiques Roadshow to the western outskirts of London and one of the great houses of England we're at Sian Park home of the Percy family the Dukes and Earls of Northumberland for more than 400 years extraordinary to think that the house and it's peaceful parkland setting beside the River Thames is only a few miles from the centre of London there are many reasons why Sun is a special interest to us not least because it's a magnificent showpiece of the work of the Scottish architect and designer Robert Adam and in next week's programme we'll be looking at patterns work in more detail but there are other reasons why scion and the Percy's are interesting the night before the Gunpowder Plot was discovered in November 1600 and for the 9th Earl Henry was having dinner here at Sun with his cousin Thomas who was one of the conspirators after the plot was revealed thomas was hunted down and shot as a traitor and the Earl who was implicated was fined a massive thirty thousand pounds and sent to the Tower of London for 17 years but despite the years in the tower the Percy family survived and prospered every generation has added something to the house or its contents the first Duke employed Robert Adam and made important additions to the house while his grandson was to leave his impressive mark on the gardens the 3rd Duke of Northumberland was a passionate gardener and in the 1820s he commissioned a man called Charles Fowler to build for him at San a conservatory to house the exotic plants the Duke was importing from around the world on board his own ship well Fowler set to work with enthusiasm and this was the Magnificent result the central dome of the conservatory 60 feet high to house the highest palms and bamboos plants came to san by the box load from the Cape of Good Hope the West Indies the Pacific Islands India and South America but on one famous occasion a plant grown here a vine was sent to Australia from that Scion stocked the whole of the Australian white wine industry evolved well this fine setting around the conservatory is our home for the day so let's now join our experts with the people of this part of London it's wonderful to see such a lovely girl as this I mean she's ideally posed for her walking in a garden all the flowers he Springs of course blossoming out and and what an extraordinarily long female supermodel of her time with the long necks it will be over six foot tall I would be scared stiff to meet a girl like that in the flesh but I would but she's well covered up to me by Dalton of course in the 1930s modeled by a very interesting model called Richard garb that he did freelance modeling for a number of factories he modeled for all Worcester and he did some coronation things in 1935 and six and and and the set of figures I think this is a set of four a Caesar so this is this is spring and he did the man in a limited edition of a hundred and she's color dinner in a lovely cream glaze it's not an ivory effect really and she's very beautiful there's a tendency of the figures of that time to him to crack and craze so she's in a a rather risky State this sort of cracks developing all up her and you need to be terribly careful that she's not sort of knocked or yes she really needs I suppose a little bit of attention yes I think she ought to be at least protected she don't fall over you're careful with her at home are you extremely nobody dusts and nobody touches her but me thirty years that year's descended to you and well sort of it was actually given to my aunt whose house cleaner to one of the doting family and they were going to throw her out because she did she was in this delicate state and says they gave her to my aunt because my aunt liked it and my aunt gave it to me so that's that's the story so stories and she still did a delicate stay that lady should be something but she's very very beautiful but quite collectible and I suppose even in this state she's going to be worth something like about three to four hundred pounds oh I will Andy joy oh I do now did your mother make you sit in this when you were a child no she didn't make me sit in it but she did make one of my children sit in it as a naughty chair but I have sat on it as a child and it's very very uncomfortable well I'm not surprised really the secret is in this straight line running up the back really because it is called technically a child's correction chair you've got a lovely concave molded rail to this back this extraordinary upright tall back which was designed to make the child sit in a correct position and adjust the curvature that might otherwise have developed in its spine with a solid seat absolutely no comfort to that and these very nice fake bamboo turned front support I think it probably dates from about 1820 to 1830 so it's quite an early example and whilst anybody buying it today probably wouldn't shove their unsuspecting child on it as a punishment but it makes a sweet little chair bhai beside the telephone or something in a narrow London hallway and it's a delightful little period example and can you remember what you paid for it about eighteen shillings and sixpence eighteen bulb gosh that was a lot of money wasn't it it was a lot of money in those days hang on the but you boarded him on the bus yeah well it's the right size to carry on the bus who's Nathan that's a jolly nice thing a period furniture person would pay for this today between three and four hundred pounds my goodness me I'm a [ __ ] you might pay four to six hundred but it's a it's a very nice example but can I have a look at this intriguing parasol that you've got here which is really lovely isn't it such a cheeky Charlie this hair terminal stamped bring brig our umbrella and parasol makers and it's solid silver this ban and it's hallmarked for London 1897 and it's got this little button on it which if I may I'm going to press and see what happens absolutely charming in the bastard children were naughty and their moms couldn't manage them I simply if I got this with me put it Sears happen there was no more tea as it was all of this crisis could be watching this is I'm going to have another go if I press it really hard that would really surprise the child on it keep them quiet wouldn't it so this is good now that's a lovely thing it's a it's a very rare collector's item actually and can you remember what you paid for it national few shillings I think I think if you were selling it in a specialist stick and cane sale today you'd probably get about 800 pounds oh my goodness what a rush it very nice Jake thank you very much for bringing along any my dance thank you very much indeed for pleasure what a pretty piece of furniture from the 1718 1790s really no absolutely pure Sheraton design and of course the latest fashion at that time was to show off all these exotic Timbers you've got this sort of pocket redesign do you know what they're all called you know all these name I should imagine they're something like Amboyna rosewood it's very good it's absolutely there's two year wood and there is rosewood and that is probably King wood and oh that just all of the new exotic Timbers that were being imported from these in the West Indies and it was fashionable to show them right this to give this lovely diamond defect on the top the rest of it is striking contrast is this very black rose with just a very dense black color contrasting at that time with white stringing of boxwood or Sycamore either white or green and then the black and so elegant little taper legs very smart thing and then it opens up to make a games table now I've never seen one without a Loper there's usually something to some because obviously people are gonna put their elbows on I would have thought anyway that's as it was totally original and you've got a checkerboard top which you lift off backgammon underneath and if you wanted to play ordinary cars there it is a multi-purpose change it was good that that hadn't been mafia nor anything well I think so too I doubt very much though you know if that's the original this is a boss this is sort of 1890s Clausen the the original would have been a coarser weave than that yes and a gray O'Conner yeah we'll forgive it that the original never here there my goodness I wonder how many fortunes would be won and lost on that now tell me the family history with this it originally came into the family through somebody who was either the secretary or the valise to the Duke of Wellington and when he got married the Duke of Wellington gave him this and a set of willow patterned a tea set a willow pattern tea set my cousin said that she very well remembered when she was a young girl her father was playing whist I suppose it would have been in those days lost yes never lose he had a bad temper picked up the original playing cards that they were playing with which had gone with the table always and chucked the whole lot in the fire oh how dreadful what a shame oh that's sad yes it is sad but on the other hand it's a part of history that's right and it's a reflection of the times and the character of the person and as long as you keep the story with the table you should write that down I have exit then and tuck it in in the table so that in a hundred years time when we do this again oh exit oh well then I'm telling you what you've already done that's excellent well done but such a pretty table and with family history which makes such a difference provenance is sewing Orton today it is sufficiently valuable that if it got damaged or stolen then you should have some form of compensation by insurance and for insurance purposes it's eight and a half thousand pounds thank you to the Duke of Wellington absolutely as far as we know it's always beyond the family we don't seem to have any further history on it right and what it appears to be is a game yes used by children I suspect and here we have the picture of the artist painting at his easel which is cut out and you can see the picture that is painting with figures standing by him and then if you take the box and put it on the flowers it spins round and there you have the flowers quite remarkable and then again if we take it and put it on the ship it'll spin round again and there you have the picture of the ship this is really nice piece of jewelry and which actually dates back to around 1820 really and it's Brazilian topaz which is what you can call it well I think it's because it has this lovely sort of pinkish areola which citrine doesn't have mm-hm and it's got this beautiful cut down setting which is very complicated to make because we look at it from the side there it's searched yes and then they file down in between each floor terribly laborious process and its really useful II made and that they only be interested to know I think should be insured for about term 1,500 pounds Wow wasn't about it we'll find it's in wonderful condition your husband kept them really very very carefully this now would be worth around 500 pounds this one which is one I love is this dinky postal set and what you have in here is a rare edition which was only for two years it's the airmail postal books until they'd sorted out all the airmail they they have this one those books in this set were only a couple of years so that pumps up the value again to around five to six hundred pounds you know I've often been asked to value our Ordnance Survey maps and it doesn't matter how early there is they're interesting but they're not as exciting as this remarkable collection here here we have a complete set of maps in absolutely stunning condition if I take them out one can actually see how beautiful and bright they are under styled and everything they really are absolutely in superb condition and they're kept in this little box here with a little handbook that goes with the whole thing and if I can turn to the title page on this we can see that the date is 1911 1912 and it's rather nice because they're all contained here in this box as well and this is rather remarkable as this little piece here which is the manometer and this is used to go along the roads and tells you precisely how far you've got now that is very often missing there's a little bit of damage here and but it's all contained in this box you can imagine having a wonderful blue lagonda and then have the most fantastic case with all the maps in it as well as tools packaged in the boot and all that sort of thing where did it come from well it belonged to my my father donk cousins sorry and he passed on to dead when he became an Scout leader and I obviously inherited him and I still use it in Skelton now blessed boys very old and the new areas you know you must tell me what sort of car he had he didn't have any coke which he thought my father cooked but my uncle dick couldn't drive that's amazing so he was wishful thinking it was this amazing it's a good story well there's a little bit of damage here a little bit of rubbing the end of the case here is it is missing but for the most part it is in absolutely superb condition have you any idea of its value no whatsoever and so when you're showing the boys you don't say sort of be careful with this it's a valuable piece well just so be careful they're old ads absolutely right well there's a piece of motoring an accoutrement for motoring and the fact that they are all in such wonderful condition I estimate that these probably at auction would make somewhere between five and eight hundred pounds very nice to see him thank you for bringing it in thank you now this is a life study by William Ettie and he's a very interesting artist he was obsessed by painting the nude where did you get the picture from I'm hitting it from my uncle and did you have a choice in the matter or did you have siblings that wanted it as well I I did choose it from you did tooth out why did you choose it well I think it's very beautiful in the pose I think it's lovely on the wave of feet around here yeah it's a very unusual pose isn't it mm-hmm Ettie was so fascinated by the human body that he liked to see it in every possible different position and contortion he's an interesting upbringing really he was a strict Methodist family and he left to join the RA schools when he was quite young to study art at the ra schools you were meant to do life drawing as an integral part of your course nude models would sit for several hours every day and you were expected to draw them all day from early in the morning till the late light failed at night and you were meant to do it for years now Ettie never lost that obsession with a nude and it was odd because at first his pictures weren't successful and then one day he did a painting of Cleopatra history painting making a triumphal entry into a city and it went into it was accepted to the Royal Academy to be hung in a Summer Exhibition and the next morning after the opening he woke up famous from almost complete obscurity the result is that you see very often on the market these studies of means there must be thousands of them just one after the other obsessive and I think you'd agree that this this this confident use of paint here suggests a shadow just gets the roundness of the muscle the bicep on the arm just so well in a way that only at he could do he's absolutely uncopyable although people have tried it's it's a wonderful picture it's very typical of him the light on his shoulders in particular just really gives it that the sheen and texture of skin awfully well what do you think it's worth well I think it's worth between two and three thousand pounds at auction not a particularly valuable picture but I think a really attractive one it hasn't gone for some years now when did it come to you as inheritance from my father and it's been in the family since 1930 as far as I know firstly you will see the name re mark fre and my Chum Simon ball tells me that if you notice a fading of the name on the face the dial that actually tells us that this is a retailer's indication it's not actually the manufacturer of a movement and the movement dates to somewhere around the 1870s 1880s it's modeled in hard paste porcelain and with all of these extremities and animals leaping out the part of the the modeler has really set himself a very very difficult task the painting is very much in the sarah style it's a star which is echoed in english porcelain as well around the eighteen forces fifties but in fact the piece here is not from England it's hard paste porcelain from Paris there's one factory that springs to mind for the production of something of this caliber and it's called Jacque Appetit but it's a wonderful piece of neo Rococo swirls and Scrolls but not nearly as wonderful as our galloping hunter it's rather savage isn't it with the leopard coming out of its land being dispatched by a pistol-shot the clock itself is worth a relatively small amount of money the actual movement the thing that makes what gives this thing its value is its outward appearance it's decorative form the porcelain I would date to somewhere around 1860 1870 that squares up quite nicely with the the movement Italy as well and despite little bits of damage on the tunic at the back I'm going to suggest that at auction this could fetch somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 pounds there in that region and then where do you store yes well for something that doesn't tell the time that's quite an expensive machine now for our look back at the Antiques Roadshow archive our 21 years on the road only one of the experts still on the show appeared on that first-ever program 21 years ago and that was Simon bull but I'll be chatting Simon in just a moment but first years 21 years of mr. bored [Music] the nice thing about the early terrestrials is that you've got signs of the unknown yes right I'm in Holland or Australia's external it's called New Holland and literally only 50% of it's theirs and then the other part everything's America which is another good sign you've got nothing west of the Rockies really complete blank but it's 16th century Italian it's gold and it is one of a group you know that I believe six more of them in the Museum in Berlin there are further examples in yen and they're supposed to belong to the Borghese one strikes the hours and then the three of them yes he's a bit flat yeah so I wanna strike the causes and that's the rare functional the wristwatch market is quite an interesting phenomenon the last few years and it's influenced by all sorts of different factors size shape material what the watch stars who made it it happens very often but with these birds the people the bellows go the axial whistle breaks and that's a very expensive operation to get fixed it's actually a minute repeating wristwatch food it's not unique they made a number of them not specifically this firm but certain firm special on constant arm Patek Phillipe made mini repeating wristwatches I think at the moment I'd have to say that this would not be worth less than fifty thousand pounds while huh Simon you're the real veteran here because I didn't join the show until three years after you three years later so I've no idea what the atmosphere was like on that first ever program let me tell you it shows when you look back 21 years terror I suppose from my point of view nobody had a clue what we were going to do really no it was um nobody had any experience of course it's a live made program there's no script there's no no rehearsals and we just sort of fumbled our way through Isaac and I suppose you didn't even know if anybody was going to turn up that that was very much the case yes mind you Arthur was around yeah and of course wherever after Negus went in those days there was a surely a following what what sticks in the memory are there any particular items you remember - I suppose one was an extraordinary 16th century gold plaque which is not my fields mine own field not a raw horological item it was this amazing gold plaque but I suppose I have to say from the point of view of getting it right and getting the price right I suppose I would have to say the wristwatch the one we just saw earlier yes the owner I think had a feeling at the time that it was worth 5000 pounds which is quite a lot of money for an old wristwatch in fact I actually said 50,000 pounds and it's sold for fifty seven thousand pounds it was spot on one of your great successes on thank goodness now one of you too must be a very very keen sower which one is it well it's not my no initially who know she hates I I hate so and I cannot so and I was deeply disappointed when I inherited this because there were two items of furniture of pause mothers one was a card table which we play a lot of gowns alumnus lisara box and his sister chose can't terribly lobster with the sewing box oh no oh yes the gambling well I think you haven't done too bad yet what's wonderful about this do you know where it's from at all we only know so that's absolutely right I mean to Tunbridge Juarez is characterized by this rather wonderful treatment of the mosaic pattern basically all these small decorative borders particularly and all the way along the front there are actually tiny tiny bits sticks which have all been basically put together like a knot number six then cut through along the ends in small sections rather like a micro mosaic of stones which are then laid on in a deputy pattern and it's something which Tunbridge Wells was famous for from really that significant period onwards it's a really wonderful example this put onto a rosewood ground and I think what's particularly unusual about it is not only the decorative borders that run all the way around it but also in the centre at the top this marvelous sort of gothic castle with some standing very proudly in the middle and also the themes are so nice is that it's got this marvelous Fitzie interior which is still absolutely untouched and the colouring I mean even to this eccentric fellow on his horse back because he's great doesn't it super but it's retained all its incredibly strong coloring which is a great thing to see actually it's got so many of the original fittings as well even here we have this beautiful group of wheel of wax which has even got the inlaid Umbridge where top which is particularly rare to survive over and you know what that is for yes it's to wax thread if you were doing a particularly tough piece of material to sort of help it through its often going through canvas I think this is it yeah it looks as though it's being used and loved all the time anyway with all the threads everything else and so much the interior still survives so it's a really charming piece of Tunbridge ware and it's something which I'm not sure you should be too unhappy about earning because it's lovely color wonderful untouched condition a few bits are starting to flake away which is fairly inevitable because it does with a little bit of shrinkage across the grain it starts to push out the smaller pieces but it's by no means irretrievable have you had it valued before do you have an idea what it's worth not D no I mean once we went to a charity show and they've talked of sort of plus or minus four hundred 400 pounds yes yeah it's quite mmm it's worth a little bit more than its I should think now if you were to go and try and buy this you might have to pay three or three and a half thousand pounds for it in the shop you have supposedly the allelic even in this country evening well it's wonderful in this untouched condition oh I see you'll have to take up selling after all when my mother gave it to me as a present for Christmas she wasn't in her cartoon colors you know the the film yeah she had the body different colored bubbles yeah but she was all in white and I was so disappointed because she's Snow White I know she's Snow White because I read you not rare yes and she's got a little and the parents are absolutely wonderful there are various snow white it's smaller or larger but yes some of them had musical interiors which you pressed will you found out that she is I suppose a normal one but then well how nice it would have been if your parents had found the Seven Dwarfs as well well I they didn't run to it but I was disappointed some of my other friends got the Seven Dwarfs I think value to someone who has got the dwarf yes snow white would be probably between three and four hundred oh no I look astonished no actually I didn't know her value and I just don't want to I have got no children or grandchildren so I thought well somebody must have get chanting and this led to the collection do you like it yes do you think it's good yes I do but you tell me well I don't mind having an owning objects which are broken or damaged if they are substantially still there and they are repairable and this is definitely repairable although this is a bit of a bad job on the house I think that could be done better the shape is distinctly European but in fact it was made in China and this group of colors is known as the family vetch group of colors dominated by the to colors of green it is the color scheme that we associate with one particular pair at the Kang Zi pier from 16 62 to 70 21 and it was appeared when the European markets were demanding huge quantities of ceramics for European used hence European shape but made in in China at a time of course when there was no European person being made . the one thing you must never ever do is put rubber bands around pieces the damage that Robert impact rubble must never come near silver it's as simple as that so we break that off that's just there we are look at that so your the problem is you will never get rid of that properly well see you never ever you could get rid of it by really hard polishing but the problem is then you're going to take away all that rib decoration and it'll be hollowed out because that really goes deeper so please please please don't ever put rubber in there a piece of silver well it's a wonderful thing to have this by one of the great ballet artists to the century really its Laura night this is very much got the feeling of a sketch done on the spot it's got a spontaneity where'd you get it from well I inherited it from my arms about eleven years ago right had she had it for a long time oh yes sir about sixty years I should think you know I always remember seeing it in her house yeah I went there as a child yeah well you can see the under drawing in pencil yeah and then it's got this thicker watercolor called body color or gouache which gets these sort of rather more opaque effects here these brush strokes and then it's got this base specialist or the wonderful stage light - falling on it that she's captured so well in this may immediate way I think that's a vein for any delightful thing to have it's not - I hope you've got it in Shorewood have you well no anyway the general has insurance I think you probably should insure it actually was something in the region of two thousand pounds do that you treasure it yes they haven't been in the family very long like my mother bought them up to the war when you could buy antiques furniture really quite cheaply and she was able to buy quite a few bargains but I remember they were always known as the coffins working from home as a child but I think it's sort of pleasure - rather austere shame they are rather austere well if we look at that it gives us an indication of the date this sarcophagus shape was actually introduced it became extremely popular for furniture after the death of Nelson in 1805 this is also furthered by the black line inlay which became popular at the same time prior to that they used a lot of bright colored woods and after his death for a while black inlay was much more popular their mahogany this is ebony and they knew they were used for two distinctly different purposes this one originally would have had a lead oh stop this what a loudspeaker it do you want reached its peak well yes well that's a good idea big dining let me see but we have got a big living room right well what I was going to tell you what they were used for originally but rather mark more useful now so you open the doors and play the music then mmm wonderful originally this would have had a zinc lining and racks of iron and that would have been to hit keep plates and other utensils hot this one would have had a lead lining and that would have kept things cold wine and so forth so you had a cooler and a heater and on top of each of these would have been an urn possibly in the same form of a sarcophagus otherwise around it var shape burn which would have taken either cutlery in one and/or cordial in another where they had a tap on so you've had everything in the dining room this developed from the 1740s and 1750s when it became fashionable dispense with servants during mealtimes everything was put in the dining room the servants went away and you've got home with it so everything was there that's why we have dumbwaiters because they were sort of discrete pieces of furniture that help people look after themselves with that sarcophagus shape that formalized foliot bracket foot we can date quite distinctly to eighteen five to eighteen fifteen their condition is wonderful for that age and it is nice to see them being used albeit for a loud speaker in the nineteen late 1940s 1950s they could have been bought from I suppose in those days a relatively good sum but today they should be insured for three thousand pounds but they have quite a lot of cabinets and it was given to my mum about 20 years ago by the people that she worked for and they'd had it since they were married which is about 1920s okay now the people that she'll work for were they French no they lived in for them Oh today right okay well the reason I say that is that what you've brought along today and is a very nice French vars which would date from around about that period it could be as early as probably about 1910 as you turn it you get this this lovely lovely landscape this woodland and what's more you know that of year that we're looking at here because it goes without saying that it's a it's a winter a winter landscape but it's just a shame that we can't get the writing AB the lighting should I say absolutely perfect because I'm sure you one should put light through this particular glass was it it probably looks completely different let's have a look at the the construction but if we turn it on its edge like that we can see it's got this internal mottling okay and then it's its thing in case in a clear glass okay and then what you've got is this this design itself is a seed cut can you feel that surface there just ever feel very granular isn't it now that's achieved by acid cutting this is on a day when when the snows been down and it's on its way out isn't it but then you've got this this enameling that just heightens that decoration if there was going to be a signature on this it would be here and what you've got there is a ground pontil which is always a sign of quality and it gives you a good idea of that internal modeling that lovely lemon color now the mark that I was wanting to see on there would have told me that this was made in non-si by a firm called domme and they were they made lots of this type of ours this one is obviously winter you could find that there may have been a setter for spring autumn and summer here yeah okay now when it comes to to value is anybody ever put a value on it for you okay well should I give you a modest valuation England and that modest valuation would be four thousand powers these are called blue dash charges the blue dashes around the edge and this is made to commemorate the coronation of Queen Anne yeah trying to think of my dates you know the date of Queen Anne's coronation your to know that ascandent you it's somewhere around about 1710 I'm not good on dates but this is in Delft where King Ray's pottery and it is to suffer a little bit this has got a little crack it's not too serious but um the the orb and scepter is is in yellow it is rather nice and the sponge trees these are done and then whether you do this at school you take a sponge dip it into cobalt oxides but do you die do they do you know exactly how they did that how did you come by it well it comes through the female line it goes to the eldest daughter of the eldest daughter and has done since it was given to the family yes but because it comes to the female line we can't trace it back because of course the surname changes ownership ownership so it would be nice to trace it I'm a beautiful daughter no I haven't it's going to go to you and your brother that is so perhaps they'll be asked a little sister that it'll go to and you won't have it but is it worth anything at all yeah he's not worth it Andy well I think even though it's got a little cracking is that it's worth quite a bit of money the last one that was sold looking at all like this at auction fits something like twelve thousand pounds that's a lot of money isn't it but I think with with this crack let's be a bit cautious and suggest that it's something between about eight and ten thousand pounds it's enough to buy a football team is better Henry Moore was the most original artist of the 20th century in fact not and sin not since wrodar in the 19th century I think had anybody been quite so original as him you could imagine my surprise to see such an enormous collection of letters from this incredibly great artist and quite a few of them Illustrated like this one to dearest evylyn now who is dearest ebloom she's my mother she's your mother and these are all written I mean dearest evylyn I can't help just reading a few comments here seem to be incredibly incredibly intimate and very very important whether they're did they have a very close relationship I think that she rather hoped that it would lead to something more than it perhaps did a marriage or something like that they possibly yes well I don't know I think that he left her a very nice legacy with these wonderful Illustrated letters this is quite an incredible collection I mean this one here - dearest evylyn with this lovely I suppose in Picasso terms you'd say blue period and this one here - which is just absolutely charming this nude under the mistletoe which i think is absolutely wonderful and then these letters go on for pages and pages and pages but however I think the one that I think is most extraordinary is this letter here which is dearest evylyn and then with this wonderful absolutely incredible doodle which is so like more it's just incredible here is a picture of him in the centre here this is your letter he's reading her letter and then a speech bubble over here just an attempt which has failed which i think is absolutely wonderful I'm going to bed I'm tired I marked myself beforehand goodnight evylyn where he rates it five out of five out of ten I think that's that that's right so having known more did you have any other paintings or pictures my mother had a portrait of herself by him which I can remember as a child but we lived in a house whose garden went down to the tens at Q and twice we were flooded the cellar was full to about eight foot and it was submerged again and I can remember having that the insurers paid for five hundred pounds for it they paid you 500 pounds for an oil portrait I think it might have been a drawing I can't remember it more or a black-and-white sketch what a pity yeah but I mean this is incredible you've got a collection here of what 30 30 odd well love letters very intimate letters anyway shall we say many with lovely drawings it I mean this is just so typical of Henry Moore it just it's breathtaking and I've seen very few Henry Moore letters come onto the market still less have I seen ones with drawings in them but I mean a drawing by Henry Moore of your mother or some body like that would probably make the best part of a hundred thousand pounds on the market today like 500 500 500 whereas a drawing a small drawing on on this scale of this size I think would make today the best part of oh 10,000 pounds and you know these other drawings here the the sort of blue period ones these are sort of it's certainly worth a few thousand pounds each so this collection this magnificent collection of Henry Moore would I suppose be worth somewhere in the region of about fifty thousand pounds it happens I just brought them along because I thought somebody might like to read them if there was a biographer and you're absolutely right I think the chances are that no biographer has actually had a chance to read these at all a wonderful find a collection of letters that will certainly go down as one of the great finds of the Antiques Roadshow and makes sign for us a memorable program indeed we're back here next week for a look at the work of the architect and designer Robert Adam this is one of the great Adam show pieces and we'll include in that program some hitherto unseen highlights of the series of the Antiques Roadshow so until then from all of us here at Sun goodbye Kathy Burke and Antony world Thompson in the kitchen for comic relief next here on BBC one followed by all you could ever want to know about holidays in Africa Sipowicz

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Published: Wed Jun 13 2018